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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"childhood aggression"”.
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Assessment of Constructs Related to Childhood Aggression
… for the comprehensive theoretical model of aggression proposed by Meloy (2001) by examining characteristics of children who have a longstanding history of aggression across home and educational settings. The theoretical model first proposed by Meloy (2001) found attachment, anxiety, and …
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Pathways to adult depression from childhood aggression and withdrawal
… modeling was used to examine pathways from aggression and social withdrawal in childhood to depression and to externalizing and internalizing behaviours in adulthood. It was hypothesized that children's aggression and withdrawal are influenced by early family environment and create enduring …
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The Mediating/Moderating Role of Social Problem Solving Skills in Childhood Aggression
… in explaining the relationship between early aggression and later behavior problems. Additionally, the moderational role of social problem solving skills was also examined. The criteria proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986) and Holmbeck (1997) were followed to test the mediational and the …
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Childhood aggression in schools: The impact of behavioral patterns and contextual influences on teachers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses
… influences on the course and treatment of aggression in schools, in an effort to inform future intervention development. The aim of the present study was to examine possible influences on teachers' response to reactive and proactive aggression in the classroom, and test the applicability of …
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Understanding Psychological Control Through Differences Between Shame and Disappointment: Implications for Childhood Agression
… in predicting children's relational and physical aggression. It was additionally of interest to investigate whether warm/involved parenting would moderate the effects of these forms of psychological control on both types of childhood aggression. Based on a review of literature, it was hypothesized …
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The influence of intellectual stimulation on the cognitive functioning of high-risk preschoolers : implications for the transmission of risk across generations
… of preschool-age children? (b) Does maternal childhood risk status predict the quality of maternal teaching and home environment? These questions were examined within a subsample of high-risk mothers and their preschool-age children from the Concordia High Risk Project, a twenty-year …
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Hostile attribution bias in children and adolescents
Childhood aggression affects a significant number of children and represents the majority of referrals to child clinical services (Ford, Hamilton, Meltzer, & Goodman, 2007). There are substantial costs for the child, their family and society more generally if aggressive behaviour remains untreated …
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Maternal childhood risk status as a predictor of emotional availability and physical contact in mother-child interactions : an intergenerational study
… in a sample of mothers with a history of childhood aggression and social withdrawal, and their at-risk children. The relationship between maternal childhood risk status, maternal scaffolding and child developmental competence was also examined. Participants were recruited from the subjects …
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Attachment and Anxiety in Aggressive Children and Adolescents
… concern among the general public regarding childhood aggression and its impact on society. This study sought to further the understanding of childhood aggression by examining the variables of anxiety and current attachment in an aggressive population of youth. There is a substantial body of …
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Differential Responses of Children with Varying Degrees of Reactive and Proactive Aggression to Two Forms of Psychosocial Treatment
… unique clinical correlates of two subtypes of childhood aggression (reactive and proactive), this study examined possible differential treatment effects for children with varying degrees of reactive or proactive aggression receiving one of two types of psychosocial treatment aimed at addressing …
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Social Information Processing, Cortisol Secretion, and Aggression in Adolescents
… information processing and cortisol secretion in childhood aggression have generated a great deal of interest and research in the past few decades, these social-cognitive and physiological components of aggressive behavior have not been examined in the context of an integrative model. This lack of …
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The Implications for Desistance of the Developmental Course of Childhood Aggressive Behavior
… model relating the developmental course of early childhood aggression to offending behavior during adolescence and early adulthood. The relationships proposed by the conceptual model are assessed using a longitudinal measure of aggression and analytic techniques designed to assess change in …
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Understanding Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Aggression in Young Children: An Affective Dyadic Systems Approach
… been examined to understand the trajectory of childhood aggression into adolescence and beyond. Maternal depressive symptoms have been considered as an influential factor in the development and continued trajectory of aggressive behaviours. In addition, aggressive children can influence …
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An investigation of physical health in high-risk mothers and their preschoolers : an inter-generational study
… a sample of mothers who were identified in childhood as being highly aggressive and/or socially withdrawn. Previous findings from this prospective, inter-generational project suggest that the offspring might be at risk for both health and academic problems by the time they reach school-age. …
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Relational Aggression, Overt Aggression, and Family Relationships
… have sought to increase understanding of childhood aggression through the study of the relation between characteristics of family relationships and children's (mainly boys') use of physical aggression in the peer group. This study is a first step toward examining processes in the family …
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From childhood to parenthood : continuity of risk over time and contextual factors perpetuating the inter-generational transfer of risk
… over time and across generations associated with aggression and social withdrawal in childhood. More specifically, contextual factors related to financial disadvantage namely, low educational attainment, inadequate social support, and poor quality home environment were considered markers of …
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Measuring Prosocial Behavior Through the Implementation of a Violence Prevention Intervention
Childhood aggression is the best-known behavioral predictor of future social adjustment difficulties. Children with early onset aggression are likely to engage in aggressive behavior throughout the life course (Hester, Baltodano, Gable, & Tonelson, 2003). Early aggressive behavior is also strongly …
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Stress Physiology and Behavior Problems
Understanding childhood externalizing problems is informative in designing interventions and reducing crime in adulthood because childhood aggression is one of the best predictors for later antisocial behavior. Childhood externalizing problems are typically studied with internalizing problems …